If someone is going to the Parks Board meeting tonight, would you please offer the following problem:
SE Como just had a lot of sidewalks, curbs and gutters, gas lines and more replaced. In many places the boulevards were just reseeded, but in other places the mess was so big that the city promised to replace the sod this fall. Yesterday they started, but no one has trained the bobcat drivers. Bobcats are vandalizing existing trees, slicing off healthy roots of sound boulevard trees and otherwise causing unnecessary damage. We've been hard hit by DED, and we need those replacement trees to stay healthy. Moreover, causing freely running wounds in otherwise sound elms is a great way to attract DED beetles, I understand. A friend of mine who is an urban forester stopped one team and asked why they were causing all that damage and discovered that no one had given them any instruction to worry about the tree roots. As a consequence, we have bobcats pretty well shearing off all the top anchor roots of 6" DBH trees, right up to the bole/stem. Those trees, planted by the city are now easily worth $250 each (or more). The bobcats are doing all this in order to replace 75 cents' worth of top soil and another $2-3 worth of sod, at my guesstimate. If a couple of guys went in there with teaspoons and toothpicks to do the job, the cost still would not come close to the value of the trees they are harming. Someone has definitely dropped a penny here. Annie!!! --Emilie Quast SE Como REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
